Fabrice Bethuel
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Fabrice Bethuel (born 7 June 1963) is a French mathematician. He holds a chair at Paris VI University.
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Fabrice Bethuel | |
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Born | (1963-06-07) 7 June 1963 (age 61) |
Nationality | French |
Awards | Fermat Prize (1999) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Paris VI University |
Doctoral advisor | Jean-Michel Coron |
Doctoral students | Tristan Rivière Sylvia Serfaty |
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Bethuel earned his doctorate at Paris-Sud 11 University in 1989, under supervision of Jean-Michel Coron. In 1998 Bethuel was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[1] He won the 1999 Fermat Prize, jointly with Frédéric Hélein, for several important contributions to the theory of variational calculus. He also won the 2003 Mergier–Bourdeix Prize [fr] for his fundamental discoveries at the interface between analysis, topology, geometry, and physics.[2]